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The Audio Science Review (ASR) approach to reviewing wines.

Imagine doing a wine review as follows - samples of wines are assessed by a reviewer who measures multiple variables including light transmission, specific gravity, residual sugar, salinity, boiling point etc.  These tests are repeated while playing test tones through the samples at different frequencies.

The results are compiled and the winner selected based on those measurements and the reviewer concludes that the other wines can't possibly be as good based on their measured results.  

At no point does the reviewer assess the bouquet of the wine nor taste it.  He relies on the science of measured results and not the decidedly unscientific subjective experience of smell and taste.

That is the ASR approach to audio - drinking Kool Aid, not wine.

toronto416
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mdalton
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@kerrybh 

I have similar views.  Product types for which I have a healthy amount of skepticism include power conditioning, high-cost streamers, and network switches (omg!).  Manufacturer claims regarding their low noise levels, jitter immunity, etc. could be easily documented, but in virtually every case they don’t.  Hmmmm….

texbychoice
141 posts
 

@devinplombier 

Now that’s a load of unsubstantiated BS - heavy on innuendo and MIA on facts.

All facts. Read many of the threads on ASR.  Name calling and personal attacks routine behavior.  Your comments follow the ASR model.

Amir jumped a thread here and went on and on and on posting numerous charts, graphs, and long verbiage. Amir himself mentioned the search algorithm.  Fact.

There is a video of Amir asking AP engineer to make the analyzer more "fool proof".  Fact.

Amir himself documents his personal system and talks about cost.  Fact.

Transparency about Amir's other business comes up in defense of his claimed absolute and unquestionable impartiality.  Fact.

Mostly you sound angry and butthurt.

You are hostile and butthurt by facts, not I.

It’s almost as if Amir had disparaged one of your products or something

I make no products of any kind.  You reveal yet another ASR minion tactic of leaping to a ridiculous assumption.

 

devinplombier
384 posts
 

Hahaha links to all these facts please?

Amir jumped a thread here and went on and on and on posting numerous charts, graphs, and long verbiage. Amir himself mentioned the search algorithm.  Fact.

There is a video of Amir asking AP engineer to make the analyzer more "fool proof".  Fact.

Amir himself documents his personal system and talks about cost.  Fact.

Transparency about Amir's other business comes up in defense of his claimed absolute and unquestionable impartiality.  Fact.

 

 

texbychoice
141 posts
 

@devinplombier

Do something besides spewing nonsense.  Put forth a little effort and do the research yourself.

audition__audio
1,556 posts
 

Amir is absent from this thread because of the damage he did to his "brand" the last time he got involved.

Textbychoice is correct with numbers 1,3 and 4 listed above. Didnt know about the engineer video.

 

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